Skirt



July 2z, 1947.-

s.- D. KoRET SKIRT Filed oct. 2e, 1945 A T TORNEV Patented July 22, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SKIRT Stephanie D. Koret, San Francisco, Calif.

Application October 26, 1945, Serial No. 624,732

2 Claims.

This invention relates to womens skirts and particularly to pleated skirts.

The principal object of the invention is to provide improvements in a pleated skirt whereby the pleating of the skirt has especial relation to the weaving or color design of the goods from which the skirt is made.

Particular details of construction for carrying out the invention will appear in the following description and accompanying drawings, which show an embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is an elevation of a skirt incorporating the invention, shown substantially as though on a wearer.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of the skirt showing the inside thereof and the inverted or box pleats.

Fig. 3 is a lower edge view of the portion of the skirtI of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of reduced size from the showing of Fig. l, showing a flat piece of goods of which the skirt shown in the drawing is made.

Briefly described the vpresent invention comprises starting with a piece of dress goods which is woven or impressed with a block design in which the rectangles preferably are squares of various colors or shades of colo-r respectively, and this piece of goods is box pleated along the lines separating the rectangles with gradually increasing depth of box pleat from the lower edge of the skirt toward the waist band so as to taper the exterior pleat panels upward to form the skirt.

' By this means each exterior panel Icarries one of said various shades or colors from edge to edge of the panel, and with the changes of color concealed within the inverted or box pleat fold.

In the drawings Fig, 4 shows a piece of dress goods l and which may be of woolen, cotton, rayon, silk, or any other material or mixture f any of them. This piece of goods is woven or impressed with rectangular blocks of various colors or shades joining along the lngitudinal lines 2 and transverse lines 3, and in the example shown the color shades used are supposed to be light tints and but four in number, tho there may be more or lessl and of any colors. The four shades designated in the goods in Fig. 4 are blue (B), grey (G), lavender (L), and pink (P), and the tinted or shaded rectangles or squares are preferably disposed in a staggered manner to separate any two areas of the same tint both vertically as well as horizontally by a different tint.

In making up the skirt from this block design of goods, the goods is preferably used lengthwise to extend around the skirt and it is pleated crosswise or transversely of its length in a manner to form the vertical inverted pleats of the skirt, preferably distinct sharp edged pleats,`

`In Fig. 3 the goods is designated by a single thick line for clarity in showing the pleating, the inner or inverted box pleats being designated 4 and the outer pleated panels between the inner pleats being designated '5.

The inner or inverted pleats are substantially centered along the lines 3 of the goods of Fig. 4 and they are relatively narrow at the lower end of the skirt as at 4 in Fig. 2 (the inside eleva tion of the skirt) and are folded along upwardly diverging lines so as to gradually increase in width toward the upper end of the skirt to a degree, as indicated at 4, as may be required to produce the desired waist line diameter and flare at the bottom of the skirt, as the outer panels or pleats l5 are consequently tapered in the opposite direction in being widest at the lower end of the skirt, as clearly shown in Fig. l of the drawine.

These outer panels or pleats are preferably sewed flat to the skirt for about a quarter or a fifth the length of the skirt downward as by stitches 6 andleft free from the lower end of the stitching to the bottom of the skirt so that in use of the skirt the edges 5 of the outer panels separate slightly as indicated in Fig. 1.

A suitable hem is formed at the lower end as by turning back the goods and sewing along the line 1, the pleats of course passing through this hem.

At the waist a waistband 8 is preferably provided, and which may be of any desired construction, buttoned as at 9 at a vertical parting line 9 or zippered to form fly concealed in a pleat or otherwise, and the band may be of any material, color, or design not concerned with the present invention.

The feature of most importance in the present invention is the fact that the vertical pleat lines are made along the lines 3 between the shade areas of the fabric so that the point of change in color or shade of the block design is concealed within the boX pleats and thus the exposed panels, though tapering in width toward the upper end of the garment, each terminate from edge to edge in one of the areas B, G, L, P, of the original fabric and as a result of this construction produces a novel effect in a pleated skirt. In the lower end of the skirt at the right-hand side of Fig. l, one of the outer pleats is shown opened out to show where the design or color changes along the line 3 beneath.

Having thus described my improvement in a pleated skirt what I claim is:

1. A vertically pleated skirt the body of which comprises a piece of fabric bearing rectangular design areas on its surface arranged in substantially contiguous rows running vertically and horizontally of the skirt and forming vertical and horizontal junctural lines between the rows, vand inverted pleats on the skirt following the vertical lines between the design areas so as to ernbrace and substantially conceal said lines, said inverted pleats folded in a manner to taperV smaller toward the bottom of the skirt and thereby make the outer exposed panels between them taper in the opposite direction and, with 'theirA greatest width at the bottom of the skirt.

2. A vertically pleated skirt the body of which comprises a piece of fabric bearing rectangular differently shaded design areas on its surface arranged in substantially contiguous rows running vertically and horizontally of the skirt and forming vertical and horizontal junctural lines between the rows, and inverted pleats on the skirt following the vertical lines between the design areas so as to embrace and substantially conceal said lines, said inverted pleats folded in a manner to taper narrower toward the bottom of the skirt and thereby cause the outer exposed panels between them to taper in the oppostie direction and with their vwidths greatest at the bottom of the skirt, and each outei panel embracing in its width no more than one vertical row of said design areas.

STEPHANIE D. KORET.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 147,166 Pollard Feb. 3, 1874 2,300,460 Novick Nov. 3, 1942 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 425,484 Great Britain Mar. 15, 1935 

